SCOAP3 U.S. Meeting - Reminder

["Ivy Anderson" <Ivy.Anderson@ucop.edu>]

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Reminder:  Register for the SCOAP 
<http://scoap3.org/focalmeeting.html> 3 US Focal Meeting!

When:              February 29th, 2008, 9 am - 4 pm
Where:             University of California at Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)

The SCOAP3 <http://scoap3.org/about.html> initiative (Sponsoring 
Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics), with 
widespread support from the scientific community 
<http://scoap3.org/community.html>, is steadily gaining momentum: 
in the last few months, many European countries 
<http://scoap3.org/whoisscoap3.html> have expressed their 
interest in joining the consortium, and more are expected to 
follow suit in the coming months.

However, without broad consensus and involvement from the leading 
US libraries and library consortia, SCOAP3 cannot happen. Please 
join fellow representatives from over 40 U.S. libraries and U.S. 
library consortia 
<http://scoap3.org/focalmeeting.html#institutes> at the US SCOAP3 
focal meeting at the University of California at Berkeley on 
February 29 to learn more about this unique initiative.  The goal 
of this event is to explain the SCOAP3 objectives and 
implementation in detail and bring together the collective 
insight and experience of the U.S. library community to determine 
how a re-direction of subscriptions to high energy physics 
journals toward SCOAP3 might be achieved in the U.S.

Attendees are encouraged to read the full report describing the SCOAP3
initiative at <http://www.scoap3.org/files/Scoap3WPReport.pdf>
An executive summary is also available at
<http://www.scoap3.org/files/Scoap3ExecutiveSummary.pdf>.

Register online at: <http://scoap3.org/focalmeeting.html> or 
contact focalmeeting@scoap3.org for further information.  We look 
forward to seeing you there!

Ivy Anderson
Director, Collections
California Digital Library
University of California, Office of the President
(510) 987-0334  (voice)
(510) 287-3825  (fax)
ivy.anderson@ucop.edu
<http://www.cdlib.org/>